Monthly Archives: August 2012

Doing More with Less: Taxpayers Will Save with Commerce’s New Adobe Contract

Last summer, President Obama launched the Campaign to Cut Waste, saying, “No amount of waste is acceptable, not when it’s your money. Just as families are living within their means, government should too, so we can invest in the things …

Harnessing Technology to Make the NRC More Effective and Efficient

There was a time when Federal employees had better computer equipment in their offices than what they could purchase for themselves at a local consumer electronics store. While I can’t pinpoint what year that reality switched, it is now a …

CIO Council 3-Month Deliverables Under Digital Strategy

The CIO Council released two documents today as part of the 3-month deliverables under the Digital Government Strategy. Details about these two documents are listed below. For a full list of all products and deliverables released to date, please visit …

Building-Blocks of a 21st Century Digital Government

Today marks three months since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5) – as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. Executing on this vision of government cannot …

Enabling a Mobile Workforce through Bring Your Own Device

A key goal of the Administration’s Digital Government Strategy (PDF/HTML), released this past May, is to enable the Federal government’s increasingly mobile workforce to perform their official duties even when away from the office by accessing government information and services …

The IT Revolution

NASA’s Open Government Team saw a great turnout in citizens from around the world gathering for 48 hours to develop software code, technology, and solutions.  Teams from every continent gathered to solve challenges that were relevant to both space exploration and …